:: Quiche of the Day ::

:: 01.25.2003 ::

Just when I start to think the internet’s getting boring again, mi amigo Peter will send me something like this. It’s the theme song to the new Ninja Turtle’s song, and if you don’t listen to it, you WILL be missing out.

Ninja Turtles 2003 theme: adventures in copious audio compression

:: Aaron Humphrey 12:45 AMreply [+] ::
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Things on my desk:


My stereo (with cassette and CD player!)
-inside my stereo
White Stripes –White Blood Cells
Burned copy of Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Counting Crows – This Desert Life
(it’s a three-disc player, baby!)
-on top of my stereo:
Ninja Turtle Leonardo action figure (his eyes bug out when you press this thing on his back) sitting ontop of my Barenaked Ladies – Rock Spectacle CD
Pin on black-silver fabric rose
Fake blue bird’s egg
Seashell from Laguna beach (I think)
Stack of CDs without cases
- Weezer – Pinkerton
- Another mix from Lori dated Dec. 02
- Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
- Almost Famous soundtrack
- Burned copy of Silverchair – Diorama
- Ben Kweller – Sha Sha
- The Beatles – 1 (belongs to Todd across the hall . .. I’ve had it for like four months)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
- Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up the Girl (kind of embarrassing somehow)
- Burned copy of Goo Goo Dolls – Gutter Flower (Um… someone gave this to me, I swear)
- Barenaked Ladies – Their Greatest Hits
- Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburb
Unopened bag of Lemon Buds – “hard candy with a juicy lemon tang”
-stacked ontop of each other:
Unused roll of Kodak Plus-X Reversal Motion Picture Film
Mixed tape from Lori
Full Throttle CD (computer game from 1995 that I still haven’t played)
White Stripes – White Blood Cells CD (just the jewel case)
Mixed CD from Lori
Stack of burned CDs on one of those spools blank CDs come on, including illegal copies of Premier 6 and AfterEffects, the Following DVD (not a burned CD, and not actually mine either . . . I need to give it back to Brandon sometime), plus a couple that just say Misc. on them. Hmm.

Left Stereo speaker
-on top of the speaker:
stack of 17 postcards of Salvation Mountain
Wiggum sticker
Your Mom sticker (with www.wiggumrocks.com written on the back)
Two unused canisters of 35mm still film, one with an orange cap, which I really like for some reason
One empty film canister
Empty glass bottle of cherry soda from the Ugly Mug

Scattered around my desk, from right to left:
Unopened pack of 50 CD/DVD sleeves (it was free)
Two mini DV tapes (one in a case), my Shakespeare notepad and a bunch of blank notecards on top of an unopened case of 50 CD-Rs
Wooden playing card (?) box
-Inside it:
Moonlight Flight flipbook
1 red paperclip
Disneyland Adventureland “magic towel” (you put it in water and it turns into a towel. I haven’t put it in water yet)
A smooth green-white rock that says Imagine on it (from my Dad)
Good luck angel coin
$00.14
Unused Metrolink pass from last fall
Boba Fett magnet
Couple of magnetic strips (?)
Two pressed pennies (Mickey Mouse and Jake the Alligator Man)

continuing right to left:
Index card with an unused movie plot
Basketball ice-cream gun from Midnight Breakfast
Ballot for Polk County election (oops, gotta mail that!)
Pack of Broadway playing cards
Another stack of index cards
Cheap computer headphones
Index card with scribbled green lines and a bit of poetry (?) on it Another set of wiggum and your mom stickers
Wooden yo-yo Grant got me for my birthday ... I broke the string so now it doesn’t really work.
Nature’s Building Blocks!! (from Denny’s)
Chapman University Career Development Center pen (red) wrapped with a brown pipe cleaner in the shape of reindeer antlers (from a candycane that was dressed up to look like a reindeer, but I ate the candycane and the antlers weren’t edible)
Business card for Kristy Beavers – Chapman University internship coordinator
Two wooden pencils
Plastic fork that I colored black on one side with a felt-tip marker (it’s art, ok?)
Two small pads of post-it notes, one of the has reference numbers for video editing on it scribbled in red pen
A bunch of candy (which I’m not going to inventory, but it includes Dubble Bubble gum, a Raspberry Cream Savor and fancy-pants chocolate) stuffed into the covering those spools of blank CDs comes with
Bottle of anti-biotics (for my ear infection)
Bit of a pink starburst wrapper
Hmm, another pile of index cards
A big rusted nut (the metal kind, you know, like nuts and bolts?)
Blue $0.99 mug Ed got for me
Pentax lens cap

And
My laptop.

Thank you.

:: Aaron Humphrey 2:30 PMreply [+] ::
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As if it weren’t enough that our “president” want to be king of the world, news like this is popping up every day!
When will the intolerance stop??

:( :( :( <-- they should be crying, but I can't figure out how.

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>:( !!

:: Aaron Humphrey 12:47 AMreply [+] ::
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Earlier this week I went with some other kids to see a taping of Good Morning Miami, which apparently is a sitcom about the cast and crew of an eponymous daily talk show (eponymous is a word I just learned. I hope I used it right), and as we were told many times during the course of the night, is number nine of the top ten shows on TV, which seems to me like not really something to brag about, but what do I know? The only TV I watch is Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, and I even managed to miss that last week. So. There was a story here, I swear. Ok, so we’re pulling into the audience parking structure at CBS studios, a bunch of white kids from Chapman, and the attendant there tells us that Good Morning Miami is cancelled, and instead they’re taping The Bernie Mac Show and adds, “Which is a black show, so I don’t know if you guys are still interested.”
Up from the car came this collective “…um.”
So could we go or not? Were we not black enough? Were we (through some bizarre turn of events) too black? Someone said that The Bernie Mac Show was really funny. Why didn’t the audience company people (who were paying us 17 bucks a pop, by the way!) tell us what was happening? We didn’t drive up here for nothing did we? Wait, did some of the people in the car want to turn around if we couldn’t see a “white” sitcom? That wasn’t what this guy thought, was it?
When my friend who was driving the car asked if we could pull into the garage and turn around if we changed our minds, the attendant told us he’d been kidding the whole time, and Good Morning Miami was still taping as planned.
I wish we’d been really cool about the whole thing and not made a big deal about the possibility of seeing The Bernie Mac Show instead, but I think we probably just acted like the spoiled, rich white kids that guy was expecting. To me it was really interesting to get judged and harassed for my race, since that’s something plenty of other people have to deal with all the time. In a way, it was only fair, wasn’t it? Plus, from my vantage point in the back seat, my point of view on race issues wasn’t being directly questioned and I could watch the exchange as safely as possible. While everyone else was making jokes about how “black” we were on the way back from the taping I felt ashamed and kind of upset for some reason that floated vaguely in front of me. Instead of reasonably dealing with the issue, which was the fact that the whole cast, and most of the audience of Good Morning Miami was white (it might as well have been Good Morning Ohio), were my friends really making stereotypical jokes about rapping and living in the ghetto?
Yeah. Some of them were pretty angry at the guy, too.
Maybe that guy was just bored and goofing off on the job, and that’s why my friends were upset. If I’d been the one in the driver’s seat being harassed and taken advantage of, I don’t think I would have been so cool about the whole deal. Kids with my color of skin aren’t used to being messed with like other kids are, and my friends really didn’t seem to know what to do with that. I hope that guy was more than just slacking off and having a laugh – I hope his intention was to open our eyes and make us think a little bit. Because one way or another, that’s what happened.
Kids? Any comments?

:: Aaron Humphrey 9:14 PM reply [+] ::
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I was thinking about funny e-mail addresses today, and realized that hotmail, the popular e-mail service could also be spelled hotmale, which struck me as both humorous and quite clever. Surely www.hotmale.com would be some site that shared my affinity for double-entendre and witty phrases. It wasn't. It was porn. And we're talking about the kind of porn severely lacking in breasts. I closed the window and turned away so fast that I wasn't able to make sense of the strange configurations of flesh, but when I looked back at the screen another porn window had popped up (as porn windows have a habit of doing). One time my roommate Ed fought the most epic pop-up window battle ever . . . his task bar was filled to the brink, and two or more windows seemed to appear every time he closed one. He'd been holding back the tide valiently with his mouse for probably about five minutes before Grant and I noticed his rapid, steely intense clicking and showed him how to ALT-f4 those suckers into oblivion. It was a method Ed was a little wary of, feeling like it was some form of un-chivalrous cheating or surrender, but after it became obvious that his mouse was an out-dated weapon for the kind of war he was fighting he gave into the dark side. It still took him probably a good minute to clear his screen.
However, the windows on Ed's computer were blank. Mine had naked men in them, and though I found Ed's point-and-click warfare valient, I wanted no piece of this naked fight. Also, I couldn't locate either the ALT or the f4 key without looking back at my tainted monitor. I snapped my laptop closed, disconnected the power and popped out the battery. Take that, pornography. Dang. That stuff should be illegal. And I'm not just talking about the gay stuff. But as I learned today, even the most rapidly-multiplying pornography can't survive without electricity. Maybe if we shut down all the power, there will be no more porn!

:: Aaron Humphrey 1:01 (hey, it's a palindrome!) AM reply [+] ::
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I’m not sure if I believe those guys who say that lifting weights is supposed to be good for you any more. As a result of my newly implemented fitness regime (yay for regimes!) I can no longer straighten out my left arm without way more work and pain than it usually takes. This means I’ve been walking around all day with a bent elbow feeling rather like a G.I. Joe action figure or something. At least I have articulated toe joints, though. Those things rule.

On the upside of things, I found a new way to make money.

:: Aaron Humphrey 6:45 PM reply [+] ::
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Man, now that it’s 2003 I’ve realized that 2002 was the last palindrome year I’ll ever see, and I didn’t take nearly enough advantage of that. Never again in my lifetime will the year be the same forwards and backwards, and I should have capitalized on that while I had the chance. I could at least have made some jokes or written it funny a couple of times. Sigh. I guess it’s true what they say: you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone. If any of you guys figure out whatever is freaking awesome about 2003, let me know, cuz I probably won’t know until 2004. I know it probably won’t be as sweet as being a palindrome or anything, but come on, what is?

I’m back at school now and I have a cold. What else do you want me to say? How about a list? Will you settle for one of those lists? Too bad, I’m tired.

Listening to: Dust in the Wind (I know! what the heck??)
Reading: The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (it won a Pulitzer or something!)
Just watched: Pulp Fiction (I’d never seen it before, but it was pretty good. I still haven’t figured out the whole thing about it being a dream or whatever, but at least it was from the library so I didn’t have to pay! . . . until it’s overdue.)
Eating: SweetTarts and Starbursts. And I think I need to eat something more substantial, because I’m hungry every five minutes. It’s getting really annoying. Where is EZ Mac when you really need it??
Also: I went on a bike ride today, and ate ice cream. Both of those things were pretty awesome.

:: Aaron Humphrey 1:06 PM reply [+] ::
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